Thursday, December 07, 2006

Ouch. I Hurt.

Well my back is still hurting like a sonofabitch. No other way to put it. I had about half a day where I started feeling human again but by last night it was sore again. It’s weird. For the first five minutes when I wake up I feel okay, but once I start moving around the pain comes raging back. It seems to have located itself mostly down near the left quadrant of my lower back, taking my hip with it. My chiropractor is on vacation this week too. And Friday is our office Christmas party which involves a hay ride, dinner and mechanical bull riding. Don’t ask. Think I’ll be skipping the festivities and staying home to soak in a hot bath with a good book. It’s about the only place I’ve found so far, other than unconsciousness, where my back feels okay.

Needless to say, I haven’t been updating regularly because I haven’t been sitting at the computer in the mornings. I’ve been working on my plot for Finding Home and creating scene capsules. I’m still trying to nail down the plot before I go any further with the writing. My critique partners have finished the critique on The Outlaw Bride as of Tuesday (sniff...it feels so final...), so now I have to start pumping out new writing to hand off to them. Oh the pressure...Anyway, since I'm not producing much at this end, take a look over at Argh Ink. Jennifer Crusie has a great post on mapping your story.

I love Jenny's collaging ideas - I find it really helps. Plus, it's another way to procrastinate and not write. She and Bob are doing a year long Writing Workshop on her blog in 2007, looks good.

Hope your back feels get better soon. If you'd just waited for today the mild weather and rain would have melted it. People across the street did that, just drove right over that pile of hard snow that the plow shoved into their driveway. I think my kids would have protested having to walk through it to get to school though or I might have tried it.

I went in and visited temp chiropractor covering for my regular guy. Took some of the pressure off and it feels a little better but he said to keep ice on it. Ugh. Why can't I put heat on it. Heat I like. Cold...not so much.

Let's not get crazy. I'm still liking the tub soaking with good book idea over an evening with my co-workers. Now if we were horseback riding instead of hay riding, that would be an entirely different story. I'd show up for that regardless of the pain!

Ditto for me. I'd rather soak in a hot tub and read a book (but you have to have a glass of wine there as well)rather than an xmas party. I am 1/2 way through Snow and Ashes and it is the best one of the series yet. But don't get me wrong, I love book 1.